It's a free Tier VIII Premium tank - what's to complain about ? You gave 10 bucks for nothing. 5 days in and I'm almost done with all the stages. Nothing to complain here ! Free tanks are free. Sell them if you don't like them. You think I moan about my Super Pershing, which was also a marathon ? Or my WZ-111 ? Or the T25 Pilot ? Or perhaps the T-44-100 ? Or maybe the EBR 75 FL 10 ? Or mah Spaghetto M35 mod. 46 ?

Nah, they are all fine. I can't really complain that I have the ability to make credits with what is basically a free Tier VIII Premium tank. I'm midway Stage X at the moment. Another 30 battles and this TD is mine. EZ !

Any TD without a turret (some exceptions like the E-25 and Chinese T8 abomination) is trash as you can easily get tracked and circled. You also need to expose a lot of your vehicle for long durations around corners etc.

Any TD without a turret (some exceptions like the E-25 and Chinese T8 abomination) is trash as you can easily get tracked and circled. You also need to expose a lot of your vehicle for long durations around corners etc.

Cobra 6

Probably right but, it's FREE trash.

It costs sweet FA if you put a little effort into it. That's a crew, a garage slot and a shiny new piece of 'trash' that if you hate it so much, you can sell it for silver and buy something you DO want.

So I now have played a few games in the TS-5 and here are my observations.

The TS-5:

Cannot snipe due to crap dispersion values

Cannot facehug due to large tumour on top of hull.

Cannot fight midrange due to trash LFP. Tier 7's will have no trouble getting through your LFP.

No fear-factor for attacking opponents due to measly 400 alpha.

The only redeeming quality is the DPM, which is quickly nullified by the above four points

I had the misfortune of grinding 80% of the marathon and then buying the thing for 10 quid. This is honestly one of the worst premiums in the game. My advice is - wait for Defender to go on sale again, and buy that, instead of doing the marathon, which is only good for premium time and directives.

Defender, in comparison has:

Even worse dispersion values, but neither the TS-5 or the defender are snipers;

The ability to facehug due to INSANE front armour and ABSOLUTELY no weakspots;

The ability to fight midrange, due to extreme LFP, which no tier 7 can go through and most tier 8's will have trouble dealing with;

Fear-factor due to having one of the best alphas (440) of heavies in its tier.

Crap DPM. But when you actually have a turret it is way easier to exploit a high DPM rather than when you are a slow-moving sack of crap.

A higher top speed of 35km/h (compared to 26km/h of TS-5) and a higher specific power.

TL;DR This game is broken beyond repair and I weep for its future. People who buy defenders are contributing to its slow demise.

EDIT: I might have been a bit unfair on the TD in saying that it was trash. As a standalone vehicle it is a brilliant moneymaker due to the DPM stats and can face off against others in competent hands, especially if you hide that abysmal LFP. What I meant was that, relatively to its tier compatriots it is quite mediocre. While I have been consistently getting 3k dmg games, the TS-5 was used purely as a support vehicle and would have a hard time 1v1-ing other vehicles. I guess it is important to make this distinction.

It's a premium tank, use food and go with heavies most of the time and at least for my two battles it felt awesome. Sure it's small sample but at least it can be super good in some situations.

With that all being said I still think it's a fair well balanced premium, and I am doing pretty well in it I must say it's the only tank I have played in the last 24 hours, I have put arty and strv and lowe to sleep and gonna grind my 3rd crew up

I bought both The Witcher 3 and the GOTY edition, well worth it. Once I have the new system up and running (still need to decide on a mainboard), I will go for another playthrough for The Witcher 3. Last one was with FCR, this one will be with either Ghost Mode or Enhanced Edition.

Don't recall if I payed the full amount for the original, but definitely bought the GOTY version on a discount. Also bought The Witcher 1 and 2 for Steam and GOG (so bought them twice, same for Fallout 1 & 2). Still money well spent.

not to mention it being one of the few game producers that have proper dlc and not main game split into parts labelled as "dlc" , deffo worth the money, high hopes for cyberpunk aswell and likely insta pre order/buy for full price